It's clearly more blatant; no subtly shading truth or concealing some details, it's in-your-face manipulation.
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We haven't had that for some time? Think about climate change "debate," for example.
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No, it's not more blatant, it just now applies to you. All the ppl left out of the 'new economy' felt lied to.
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Really? In your lifetime we've had candidates saying the Pres is a foreign born Muslim who supports terrorism?
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Saddam did 9/11 was implied by Bush. Trade with China will balance our trade deficit was implied by Clinton.
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Reagan's welfare queens mythology, Iran-Contra, etc. Want me to go on?
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To be fair, Iran-Contra was a NatSec lie. We've always had those.
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I just put them in a slightly different category. Esp bc we finally have more ability to refute in real time
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Replying to @emptywheel @ColMorrisDavis
Sure. And the natsec state has fundamentally changed since the 1980s.
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How so? @ColMorrisDavis
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Procurement shift into globalized monopolistic supply chains. More 1990s story actually.
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